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• Weighing extinct animals

  June 14, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.160

• The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

  June 28, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.527-531

  sequencing of the bonobo genome shows that more than three per cent of the human genome is more closely related to either the bonobo genome or the chimpanzee genome than those genomes are to each other

• Three-dimensional limb joint mobility in the early tetrapod Ichthyostega

  June 28, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.523-526

  insights into an important step in vertebrate evolution--the transition from swimming to walking

• Phylogeny: Rewriting evolution

  June 28, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.460-462

  tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree

• The diet of Australopithecus sediba

  July 5, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.90-93

  data for 2-million-year-old hominins from South Africa, show that they consumed a mostly C3 diet that contrasts with previously described diets of other early hominin species

• Turkey cracks down on academic freedom

  July 5, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.19-20

  external groups hope scrutiny will restrain government

• Victory for responsible reporting

  July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.139

  a High Court case highlights the inadequacies of England's libel laws and should be used as an impetus for major reform

• Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

  July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.231-234

  this phylogenomic study shows that core muscle proteins were already present in unicellular organisms before the origin of multicellular animals, and supports a convergent evolutionary model for striated muscles in whic

• Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

  July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.223-226

  the bird skull arose from the nonavian dinosaur skull by several episodes of paedomorphosis in which descendants resemble the juveniles of their ancestors

• Creationist victory: Evolution blackout in South Korea

  July 12, 2012 Sang-im Lee and Piotr Jablonski Nature, v.487, p.171

• Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology

  July 19, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.358-361

  dinosaurs were not necessarily cold-blooded: the main argument in favour of this, namely the presence of seasonal lines of arrested bone growth, has been demolished by a comprehensive study of extant ruminants

• Palaeoanthropology: Lucy's relatives walked upright

  July 19, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.274

• Planetary science: The time machine

  July 26, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.422-425

  Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.

• A complete insect from the Late Devonian period

  August 2, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.82-85

  the fossil of a complete insect from the Late Devonian period (approximately 365 million years ago) is presented

• The time is right to confront misconduct

  August 2, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.7

  after a generation of denial, research leaders are finally treating scientific fraud with the seriousness it deserves

• Arab liberals must stay in the game

  August 9, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.131

  Islamist academics are gaining power in the Middle East and North Africa, but to build science needs liberal input

• A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous period of North America

  August 9, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.205-208

  previously undescribed material from the Cretaceous Coniophis precedens shows that it is the most primitive known snake

• New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo

  August 9, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.201-204

  three newly discovered hominin fossils aged between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old confirm the presence of two contemporary species of early Homo in the early Pleistocene of eastern Africa

• Astrobiology: Frontier or fiction

  August 9, 2012 Antonio Lazcano and Kevin P. Hand Nature, v.488, p.160-161

• Physics prize dwarfs all others

  August 9, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.144

  theorists left reeling after billionaire reveals massive prize

• Reconstructing Native American population history

  August 16, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.370-374

  a survey of genetic variation in Native American and Siberian populations reveals that Native Americans are descended from at least three streams of gene flow from Asia

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  Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

  February 1, 2012 University of California Press

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• Book

  The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

  March 1, 2012 Pantheon (Random House)

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• Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network

  June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1154-1157

  across vertebrates, behaviorally relevant brain regions are remarkably conserved over 450 million years of evolution

• A Rogue Earthquake Off Sumatra

  June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1118-1119

  a magnitude 8.6 strike-slip earthquake within an oceanic plate raises fundamental questions about earthquake physics

• Why Is the Solar System So Bizarre?

  June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1098

  enigmas such as Mercury's makeup (mostly iron core, with a thin veneer of rock) and Uranus's skewed magnetic field continue to bedevil planetary scientists, and no tidy resolution is in sight

• What's the Source of the Most Energetic Cosmic Rays?

  June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1096-1097

  data taken from detectors in the past few years have provided some clues to the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays but, as yet, no smoking gun

• What Is Dark Energy?

  June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1090-1091

  the nature of the "dark energy" that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate is now perhaps the most profound mystery in cosmology and astrophysics, and it may remain forever so

• Early Dates for Artistic Europeans

  June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1086-1087

  new radiocarbon dates of artworks found in a cave in southwest Germany suggest to some researchers that certain artistic behaviors emerged first in Europe rather than Africa

• Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

  June 29, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6089, p.1696-1700

  shards from a cave in China imply that humans had invented pottery and used it for cooking by about 20,000 years ago

• Bilaterian Burrows and Grazing Behavior at >585 Million Years Ago

  June 29, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6089, p.1693-1696

  Neoproterozoic trace fossils from Uruguay indicate that early animals appeared at a time between global glaciations

• Prominent Turkish Academic Who Advocated Secular Reforms Arrested

  July 6, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6090, p.23

  the former head of Turkey's Council of Higher Education, Kemal Gürüz, has been arrested as part of an inquiry by Turkey's conservative government into what's known as the "postmodern coup" of 1997

• Genes Suggest Three Groups Peopled the New World

  July 13, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6091, p.144

  the most comprehensive genetic study to date concludes that Native Americans descend from at least three groups of ancestors from Asia, although these groups intermingled extensively once in the New World

• Higgs Boson Makes Its Debut After Decades-Long Search

  July 13, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6091, p.141-143

  last week's announcement that physicists at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, had discovered the Higgs boson could mark the end of the road for particle physics

• Ice Age Tools Hint at 40,000 Years of Bushman Culture

  August 3, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6094, p.512

  archaeologists studying a South African cave say they have found 44,000-year-old artifacts -- including bone tools and poisoned arrowheads -- nearly identical to those still in use by hunter-gatherers

• Neandertal Champion Defends the Reputation of Our Closest Cousins

  August 10, 2012 Science, v.337, n. 6095, p.642-643

  archaeologist João Zilhão and his critics trade charges over who truly invented artifacts at European sites -- and whether Neandertals were “modern”

• A New Face Reveals Multiple Lineages Alive at the Dawn of Our Genus Homo

  August 10, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6095, p.635

  after 40 years of searching, an international team of researchers has found fossils of a face and two jawbones that they say belong to the same species as the mysterious skull of Homo rudolfensis

• Book

  Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life

  May 1, 2012 Princeton University Press

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• Bottled carbon from Mars bodes well for ancient aliens

  May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.17

  carbon found in Martian rocks came from magma not alien life forms -- but the presence of reactive carbon raises hope for signs of life on Mars

• Birds got smart by becoming big babes

  May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.12

  the skulls of birds look just like the skulls of young dinosaurs, suggesting that arrested development was the key to their evolution

• Extra heatwaves could kill 150,000 Americans by 2099

  May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.4

• Time flows uphill for remote Papua New Guinea tribe

  May 31, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.14

  Who says time has to flow forwards? The Yupno people have a mental timeline that breaks all the rules -- it's not straight, and flows uphill

• Book

  Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life

  June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press

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• Book

  Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

  June 1, 2012 Spiegel & Grau

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• Book

  Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

  June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press

  see also Amazon

• Book

  Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

  June 1, 2012 University of Chicago Press

  see also Amazon

• Alan Turing: Intelligence and life

  June 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867

  a visionary thinker on artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, Turing devised the test that's used to gauge how close machines have come to us

• A palaeontologist's Alaskan adventure

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.50

  big digs in the Arctic reveal that it was inhabited by dinosaurs year-round and that the region was pleasantly temperate

• Lucky you! Accidents of evolution that made us human

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.34-35

  evolution is a game of chance ... six of the winning mutations that helped humans hit the jackpot

• Vast cosmic event leaves record in ancient trees

  June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.17

  tree rings formed in the 8th century record a peak in cosmic ray activity -- but what was the cause